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Release Blast for GETTING WOUND UP by Jennifer Bernard and Erin Nicholas

Thanks for stopping by for the Release Blast for GETTING WOUND UP, a Sapphire Falls/Love Between the Bases crossover contemporary romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author, Jennifer Bernard and New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author, Erin Nicholas, releasing with EN Fiction Inc. on April 12, 2016.

Caitlyn Murray has never let on that she's had fantasies about her brother's friend Eli Anderson for years. She'd do anything for the sexy baseball player who walked away from stardom to stay in Sapphire Falls and take care of his family. But she and Eli are friends. Just friends.

So when her brother hatches a plan to get Eli to the pro baseball try-out for the Kilby Catfish and another chance at his dream, Caitlyn is all in. After all, what's a little kidnapping among friends?

A spot on the pitcher's mound for the Catfish isn't the only tempting thing about the spontaneous road trip. Eli already knows that Caitlyn is as sweet as the candies she makes for the Sapphire Falls bakery, but alone with her overnight in the tiny motel room in Kansas, it's impossible to resist the urge to take a little taste.

But when that taste leads to falling for the girl next door just as his front door is moving hundreds of miles away, can Eli really have it all? Or do they have too many strikes against them?

Caitlyn felt her stool being swiveled. She
came face-to-face with Eli.

“Eli, what—”

He cupped the back of her head and covered
her mouth with his.

It didn’t last long. At least, it didn’t
last long enough, in her opinion. But
it was … amazing. Yes, that was definitely the word for the day.

“Did you really memorize each of my tryout
pitches?” he asked, resting his forehead against hers.

She nodded, unable to speak. Because she’d
also memorized the feel of his lips against hers. And she wanted to keep
reliving it.

“Thank you,” he said quietly.

“For memorizing them?” she managed to ask.

“For caring.”

She melted a little at that. “I can’t help
it.”

She immediately bit her lip. Crap. She had
to stop with the slips. On this one she could blame her kiss-muddled brain, but
…

Hey, he’d kissed her.

“You kissed me,” she said softly, pulling
back just enough to look up at him.

“I did.”

She couldn’t help but let her gaze drop to
his mouth.

“And I want to do it again.”

Her eyes flew back to his.

“There is really something sexy about you
knowing all about pitching and every detail of my tryout and believing in me so
adamantly.”

Oh boy, she really wanted to kiss him again.
Or have him kiss her. However, whatever,
it took to get his mouth on hers.

“Then I overheard you talking to Bryan. You
really do think I’m amazing. You aren’t just saying that to me.”

“I’ve always thought you were amazing,” she
said.

He pulled her close and lowered his head.
“Yeah, the wanting to kiss you isn’t new either.”

And then he was.

It was so much more than the spontaneous
good-luck kiss. It was even more than the one just a minute ago. This one was
much more … intentional.

His lips moved over hers slowly,
deliberately, as if he was savoring her. After only a few seconds she was
clinging to him, his shirt fisted in her hands, her back arching as she tried
to get closer.

Caitlyn felt his hand move to the back of
her neck, holding her in place as he tasted her, his tongue sliding along her
lower lip and then in against her tongue when she sighed.

When he finally lifted his head, she swore
that she could still feel his tongue on hers. And in a few other places it
hadn’t actually been.

“Whoa,” she breathed out.

He nodded. “Yeah.”

“We should … ”

“Stop.”

“Do that again.”

They spoke at the same time and stopped at
the same time.

He let go of her and stepped back.

“You think we should stop,” she said, trying
not to show just how disappointed she was.

“You think we should keep going?” He looked
a little stunned at that.

“I think I need another shot.” She raised
her hand and signaled the waitress.

She was definitely going to need another,
because she’d just made a life-altering decision. Do or die. All or nothing.
Play hard or go home.

Gulp.

Jennifer Bernard is a graduate of Harvard and a former news promo producer. The child of academics, she confounded her family by preferring romance novels to … well, any other books. She left big city life for true love in Alaska, where she now lives with her husband and stepdaughters. She’s no stranger to book success, as she also writes erotic novellas under a naughty secret name not to be mentioned at family gatherings.Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

Erin Nicholas is the author of sexy contemporary romances. Her stories have been described as toe-curling, enchanting, steamy and fun. She loves to write about reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines and happily ever afters. She lives in the Midwest with her husband who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books, her kids who will never read the sex scenes in her books, and family and friends who say they’re shocked by the sex scenes in her books (yeah, right!).Website | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads

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